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Privacy Policy

At California Youth Soccer Association – Cal North Online (calnorth.org), our goal is to provide a safe, fun and informative online experience for all of the children and adults who makeup Cal North membership. We want you to understand and feel comfortable with this site’s process of gathering information from users, and we want you to know exactly how that information is used and what your rights are with regards to all of the information collected.

This Privacy Statement is intended to educate parents and youngsters about the steps they can take to safeguard their privacy when visiting Cal North Online or any of the other exciting websites that have links to and from Cal North Online. We also hope that the information presented here demonstrates our total commitment to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). In doing so, the following discloses our information collection and dissemination practices for this website: calnorth.org.

If you have any concern that Cal North Online is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should e-mail the site administrator, Emanuel Lusca, at elusca@calnorth.org or use the contact information below:

Information Collection and Use Cal North Online collects information from our users at several different points, and is the sole owner of the data collected on the website. In each case, only information that is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity at hand will be sought. For example, Cal North Online will not ask children or any requester for their home mailing address in order to receive an e-mailed newsletter. We will never condition a child’s participation in an online activity on the disclosure of information that is beyond what is reasonably necessary for Cal North Online to conduct the applicable activity.

E-Newsletter Subscriptions Cal North Online does not require visitors to register in order to use this website. However, users have the option to subscribe to receive free E-Newsletters. The content of Cal North’s E-Newsletters is appropriate for all ages. In addition, users may have the opportunity to subscribe to additional newsletters through linked sites. We encourage parents to read and become familiar with the privacy policies and information collection practices of all other sites that their children enter. To subscribe to our E-Newsletters, a user is asked to give their name and e-mail address. Users may time to time also have the opportunity, but are not required, to sign up to receive special promotions from advertisers that may be of interest to Cal North members. Information collected to distribute Cal North Online’s E-Newsletters may be transferred, disclosed or otherwise shared with third parties who handle the technical preparation and delivery of the newsletter. These third parties will not use the information for any other purposes and have agreed to keep all such information confidential. In addition to e-mailing newsletters to subscribers, we may send a “welcoming e-mail” to first-time visitors, and occasional updates to keep users current on the site-specific services, event calendars, local competition news, and other points of interest including periodic special offers from Cal North Online. Our intent in collecting information from users is to provide the most personalized and rewarding online experience possible.

Surveys From time to time, Cal North Online conducts user surveys on a variety of youth soccer-related topics. Our website will advise users that participation in these surveys is completely voluntary, and there is no requirement to disclose any personally identifiable information. All surveys conducted through this site will be used as research for the purposes of assessing and improving user satisfaction, and/or for determining the user’s opinion on a particular issue relating to Cal North Soccer or the sport of soccer generally. Survey information collected may be shared with third parties in an aggregated manner for the purposes of showing sponsors of Cal North Soccer and people in the soccer community what the opinions of our members are on particular subjects. However, the information collected in these surveys will not be used for commercial solicitation purposes without the express consent of users completing the survey. Each survey will give users the choice to “opt-in” to receiving messages from advertisers or sponsors by checking a box on the appropriate page.

Information Sharing Cal North Soccer Online may accumulate and store aggregated demographic information about its users. This information is not linked or otherwise traceable to any identifiable personal information, and is used solely to advise website partners and advertisers of the site’s general audience characteristics and track responses to online programs and activities. Sponsors with whom Cal North Soccer Online may share identifiable personal information, include but are not limited to: Wilson Trophy and Shutterfly® along with other sponsors/partners. Each of these partners has agreed to maintain the confidentiality, security and integrity of the information provided to them. In all cases where personal information is disclosed to a third party, parents have the right to say “no” to the sharing of such information.

Parental Access/Control of Information In compliance with COPPA, any parent of a child who provides information to Cal North Soccer Online has the right to review the child’s personal information, order its deletion, and refuse to allow further collection or use of the child’s information. To make this process as simple as possible, this site links to a Parent’s Information Access Form so you can print out, mail or fax the completed form to us at this address and number:

Cal North 1040 Serpentine Lane, Suite 206 Pleasanton, CA 94566 925.426.5347 The form requests a parent or legal guardian’s e-mail address, as well as a signature to verify the identity of the person seeking to review the information collected by the site.

Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Cal North Soccer Online does not use cookies to operate our site.

Some of our business partners use cookies on their sites (for example, sponsors). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Security/Links This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. We do not ask our users for more information than is necessary to conduct the various activities being conducted on our website, and all of our information is protected both online and off-line through the use of industry-standard practices. Cal North Soccer Online encourages visitors to familiarize themselves, not only with this Privacy Statement, but also to review and understand the privacy policies and information collection practices of other websites that link to and from this site. While Cal North Soccer Online screens our links for overall content, information and entertainment value, we are not responsible for the practices of other sites as they apply to privacy, security, integrity and compliance with COPPA. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

If you have any questions or would like more information about the security at our website, you can send an e-mail to our site administrator using the contact information below:

User Submissions This site may provide users with an opportunity to submit their own articles and comments on soccer for possible online publication. Cal North Soccer Online reserves the right to edit user submissions for appropriate language, content, space, and other editorial considerations. Full names and contact information from the submissions are not used on the site unless permission is granted by the submitter.

Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post a prominent link to those changes on the home page of Cal North Soccer Online for ninety (90) days so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in a different manner. In using information, Cal North Soccer Online will always adhere to the most recent version of this Privacy Statement.

Contacting the Website If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the practices of this site, or wish to modify or delete information previously submitted, please e-mail our site administrator using the contact information below:

LEGAL STATEMENT All content and images on calnorth.org are owned by Cal North Soccer Online unless credited to a partner. Any re-use of the content and images is forbidden without consent from the site administrator.